Journey for a Tobacco-Free World

Click here to view a news report by CTV Regina.

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Day 53 of the JTFW…and I’m off to a late start (from just east of Swift Current, Saskatchewan), so gotta keep this short. Everything is going very well: Public support is amazing, media support is running a close second and political support is a very distant third. Obviously, I’m hoping the political support catches up [...]

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Day 45 — a well-deserved day off, if I may be so bold — finds the JTFW in Medicine Hat, Allberta…and the Saskatchewan border is only 2 days away!  Yee hah! Yesterday was the absolute worst day of the entire trek (weather-wise), thus far.  The day before (Day 43), one of our Saskatchewan colleagues called [...]

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Six days after starting treatment for a pretty serious infection in my lower right leg (at Mineral Springs Hospital in Banff), I was back on the road…getting back into it gently:  July 1, I did 10 km; July 2nd 20, July 3rd 30 and July 4th, I did the full 42…and have continued to do [...]

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Yesterday (June 28), the awesome staff at a clinic in Calgary did an ultrasound, which ruled out a clot in my lower right leg.  And today, I had my last IV for the infection…and have been switched to oral antibiotics.  This whole experience has been quite a wake-up call for me, regarding the extreme importance [...]

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Some good news…and some not so good news. The first day of the B.C. leg of the JTFW was absolutely incredible!  The first day of the Alberta leg; not so much. On Friday, June 25, after 37 kilometres (from the B.C./Alberta border to Castle junction), I had to take a break…and we went to Mineral [...]

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This one is by Jay Carr, a.k.a. killthemwithcolor. The footage is from the start of the Journey in Victoria, but there are interviews covering several British Columbia tobacco issues. P.S. Errol finished today three km. short of Rogers Pass.

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Errol was interviewed on The World Today Weekend program with Sean Leslie on June 20 between 5:05 and 5:20 PM. Click here to listen from CKNW’s audio vault (fast-forward about five minutes).

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Greetings, EVERYONE! My most humble apologies for not writing/updating long before now; this Journey has been a wild, crazy, hectic, whirlwind experience.  The days on the road are very long.. snack and lunch breaks included, often 9 or 10 hours.  And when media people (newspaper and radio) call for interviews, I have to try to [...]

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CBC British Columbia aired a report on the JTFW by Bob Nixon on June 8. You can view it by going to Bob Nixon’s blog entry, Marathon Man, then clicking on “Anti-Tobacco Campaign” at the end of the article.

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